7:36 PM,
Jul. 19, 2013

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The Clarion-Ledger

A Satanic Temple says Westboro Baptist Church founder Fred Pehlps Jr.'s mother is "gay forever" after the group performed a ritual at her gravesite in Meridian.

The church, based out of Topeka, Kan.,has made a name for itself since the early 1990s with bombastic rhetoric against the gay community, controversial protests of funerals, and more recently, an appearance at Ole Miss for the idolization of The Blind Side's Michael Oher.

The New York-based Satanic Temple, an organization with a goal to support "freedom and the pursuit of happiness for all people," took its own stance against the ...